Why Now?
FTTH construction cost no longer dropping rapidly
- Electronics now only 5% of system cost for 10 Mb/s
The market is ready
- Telephone modems have reached the 56 Kb/s limit
- Users starting to move to medium-speed (~1 Mb/s) services
There is a window of opportunity
- Most attention focused on squeezing out the last dregs from existing copper infrastructure
- FTTH is a natural monopoly - it will be uneconomic to duplicate this infrastructure.
- The first provider to build an open Last-Mile fiber infrastructure in a given area will be the last for decades